Higher signal harmonics, LISA's angular resolution, and dark energy

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2007-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3920v2

Phys.Rev.D76:104016,2007; Erratum-ibid.D76:129903,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, no figures. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.104016

It is generally believed that the angular resolution of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) will not be good enough to identify the host galaxy or galaxy cluster. This conclusion, based on using only the dominant harmonic of the binary SMBH signal, changes substantially when higher signal harmonics are included in assessing the parameter estimation problem. We show that in a subset of the source parameter space the angular resolution increases by more than a factor of 10, thereby making it possible for LISA to identify the host galaxy/galaxy cluster. Thus, LISA's observation of certain binary SMBH coalescence events could constrain the dark energy equation of state to within a few percent, comparable to the level expected from other dark energy missions.

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